Healing Dance
Aquatic Bodywork
Movement in Water – a Healing Practice
Healing Dance is a holistic aquatic bodywork practice.
During a session, you are supported in warm water and guided through flowing movements, stretches, spirals, and subtle rhythms. The practitioner listens closely to your breath, tone, and responses, allowing movement to arise naturally.
Water reduces the pull of gravity, quiets the nervous system, and creates a sense of safety. In this environment, the body often feels free to let go in ways that are not easily accessible on land.
Experience Being Moved
Healing Dance works through presence rather than correction.
Each session is unique, shaped by what is needed in that moment. There is no goal to reach, no performance to achieve.
People often describe the experience as:
• Being gently held and guided
• Entering a meditative or dreamlike state
• Reconnecting with parts of themselves long forgotten
This is not something to do, it is something to receive.
Benefits Often Reported
Over years of practice and teaching, Healing Dance has shown itself to support people on many levels.
Participants often experience:
- Deep relaxation and nervous system regulation
- Emotional release and integration
- Improved body awareness and ease of movement
- A sense of calm that extends into daily life
The effects are often subtle, yet profound, unfolding naturally over time.
Ashaman Gray
I discovered aquatic bodywork in 1999, and have been teaching Healing Dance since 2006.
I teach professional trainings internationally, in the United States, Europe, Israel, India, and Spain, and am one of a small group of senior instructors certifying Healing Dance Practitioners in both the Surface and Underwater tracks.
My teaching emphasizes safety, sensitivity, and deep listening, honoring both the water as a teacher and the individual as their own authority.
I’ve taken so many trainings and retreats over the years, and this was the most significant by far. The space you created was so important, powerful and inspiring during a moment of madness and chaos all around… Thank you for staying and sharing your gift with us.
Ayana Levi
Israel
Thank you Ashaman for the depth and subtlety of your teaching, I leave deeply nourished, deeply touched and inspired by all that I have received… the teaching, the session received, the gift of being witnessed, the invaluable quality of your presence!
Marie-anne M.
France